Album Review: Six Organs of Admittance – Hexadic
The nine songs on this record were composed via a system created by Six Organs mastermind Ben Chasny involving a deck of cards and other randomised elements to dictate chord…
Album Review: California X – Nights In The Dark
If you ever yearn for a time when Weezer were still good, this California X record is for you.
Album Review: Ibeyi – Ibeyi
Ibeyi are XL’s latest discovery and are yet another ticking time bomb of future world domination.
Album Review: Subplots – Autumning
Subplots' Autumning is a delicately executed record calling out for a rogue move.
Album Review: Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
Father John Misty's new record that will, in the words of American writer Steve Hyden, ‘inspire rapturous reviews and unreadable thinkpieces’.
Album Review: Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again
Jessica Pratt's made a record that could be a reissue of obscure 1970s gem, but achieves this aura without feeling retro.
Restaurant Review: Kimchi at The Hop House
For the great but affordable meal out, for me Kimchi at The Hop House is one of the city's best.
Man in a Shed: Interview with Richard Malone
Opening the Central Saint Martins graduate show with 15 models marching grumpily to Iggy Azealea’s Fancy, Wexford native Richard Malone has won universal praise for his gutsy collection based on
With Distinction: Interview with Anne Morgan of Distinct Model Management
Founder of Distinct Model Management Anne Morgan is putting Irish models on the international fashion stage with her keen eye for cutting-edge talent.
Barfly: The Shakespeare / The Hop House
The Shakespeare / The Hop House on Parnell Street is the perfect embodiment of the duality that the street now represents.
Barfly: Slattery’s & Sober Lane
Traipsing through D4 on match-day to find to visit two post-Gibraltar thrashing watering hole, Slattery's and Sober Lane.
Book Review: Unspeakable Things – Laurie Penny
Laurie Penny's Unspeakable Things gathers up the kneejerk lefty politics of Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr and turns them into something coherent.
Book Review: The Negative Cutter – Patrick Chapman
In this volume, Patrick Chapman's two novellas, Anhedonia and The Negative Cutter, are published together under the latter title yet both are substantially different in tone, subject matter and treatment.
Book Review: IDP: 2043 – Irvine Welsh et al.
IDP:2043 is a collaborative graphic novel by, amongst others Irvine Welsh, that imagines Scotland’s fate 29 years from now.
Book Review: Unlearning with Hannah Arendt – Marie Luise Knott
Hannah Arendt shocked the world when she declared that Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi high official whose Jerusalem trail she reported on in 1961, was a “random buffoon” rather than a…
Book Review: Lines of Vision – Janet McLean
Lines of Vision is a commemorative collection of writing by contemporary Irish authors each inspired by a painting in the National Gallery of Ireland.
Book Review: Morphologies – Ra Page
Ra Page introduces this collection of essays by suggesting a number of hypothetical models and functions explaining the short story, before effectively dismissing his analysis as all “a bit of…